Joseph koon



(Model.)

J. KOON.

CORSET.

Patented Sept. 27,1881.

UNITEDV STAT-Es PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH KOON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO LEWIS SGHIELE 8u CO., OFSAME PLACE.

CORS ET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent'No. 247,662, datedSeptember 2*?, 1881.

` tppnationied July 1,1881.. (Model.)

` York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have inventednew Improvements in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with the ac-V companying drawings and the letters'ofref'- erence marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescriptionof the same, and which said drawings constitute part of thisspecification;

and represent, in-

Figure l, a side View of the hip-section Fig. 2, transverse section at xw, enlarged.

This invention relates to an improvement in corsets, with specialreference to that portion which extends over the hips and upward underthe arm, and commonly called the hipsection;77 anditconsistsinconstructingthe section from two thicknesses of fabric with parallelpockets close to each other, starting from the upper edge and runningdownward to about the waist line 5 thence diverging from the verticalcentral line, those in rear of the central line curved downward andbackward, those in front of the said line curved downward and forward.In the space produced by the divergence of pockets other pockets areformed parallel to those each side the center, gradually shorteningtoward the bottom until the space is lled, and into all the pocketscords or equivalent stays are introduced, as more fully hereinafterdescribed.

A represents the front section 5 B, the rear section; G, the front half,and D the rear half, of the hip-section. The parts O D are cut to givethe required expansion at the lower edge. They are each composed of twothicknesses of fabric, ab, and in each of the parts parallel lines ofstitches are run from top to bottom parallel with each other throughoutthe sections to about the waist-line. From that point those in the fronthalf, O, curve downward and forward to the lower edge. Those in the rearhalf curve downward and backward to the lower edge. The curving ordiverging of the pockets produces a gore-shaped space at the centerlower edge ot the section. Throughout this gore-shaped space pockets aremade in each part parallel with the respective curves until the space iscompletely occupied by the pockets. Into these pockets, throughout thetwo parts ot' the section, cords or equivalent stays are run, thusproducing a completely cordedsection, the cords throughout the sectionparallel with each other to the waist-1i ne, and from that pointdiverging to the front and rear.

The pockets maybe first made and the cords introduced; but the bettermethod is to introduce the cords at the time of making the pockets.

lf made in two parts,whicl1 is the preferable plan, the said two partsare united at the center, bringing the diverging cords in the lowerportion to meet at'the central seam, and at that seam covered by anoverlay, E.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming cords or equivalentstays introduced in the hip-section, as such, I am aware, is not new'but A corset having the hip section corded throughout, the cordsstarting from the upper end of the section parallel with each other andextending down to the waist-line; thence diverging from the center,those in the front halt' curved downward and forward, and those in therear halt curved downward and backward, the intermediate space producedby such divergence iillcd by other cords, those in each half parallelwith the other cords in the same part, and all correspondinglydiverging, substantially as described.`

JOS. KOON.

fitnesses S. GUTMAN, H. FEDER.

